Wire-bound box.



No. 887,387. PATBNTED MAY 12, 1908. J. J. MILLER.

WIRE BOUND BOX.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 30, 1908.

yga m J Z605 {Ml/fer? following is a specification.

STATES PATENT onnron.

JULIusJJMiL'L ER, oFsT. JOSEPH, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO I ILLINOIS.

W lli-LIAM P. I'IEA'LY, OF CHICAGO,

WIRE-BOUND Box.

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, JULIUs J.. MILLER, a citizen of the United States of America, and residentof St. Joseph, Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Wire-Bound-Boxes, of which the "My invention relates to boxes provided with binding wires which are twisted together when the box is closed that is to say, which extend around the box and have their end portions twisted together to hold the box in closed condition.

The object of my invention is to provide a .box of this character with means for twisting and covering the ends of the wire When-the box is closed. In this way, I not only prevent the wire ends from becoming untwisted, but I also prevent such ends from injuring the hands of freight handlers.

To the foregoing and other useful ends, my invention consists in matters hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows the box open. Fig. 2 shows the box, closed. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail peripective view of one corner of the box.

1g. 4 is an enlarged front view of the twister applied to the wire ends. Fig. 5 is a front view of the twister. Fig. 6 is a back view of the twister. Fig. 7 is atop edge View of the twister. Fig. 8 is an enlarged section on line 88 in Fig. 4. Fig. 9 shows the wire end crossed and bent and ready to receive the twister.

As thus illustrated, my invention comprises the side and bottom walls 1, 2 and 3, and the swinging top wall or cover 4. The walls are connected together by the outside bindin wires 5, 6 and 7 and reinforced by theinside cleats 8. Staples are used to secure the binding wires and cleats to the veneer of which said Walls are composed. End walls or heads 9, 10 are secured to the cleats at points inside the same, to close the ends of the box. When'the box is closed, as

.shown in Fig. 2, the tapered twisters A are applied to the wire ends to twist the same together and cover the sharp or dangerous ends thereof. Each twister is made of sheet metal and provided with rolled or curled edges aa providing tubular or round sockets for the wire ends, so that each fits Specification of Letters Patent;

Application filed April 30, 1906. Serial No. 314,373.

Patented May 12, 1908.

snugly but removably therein. These curled or rolled-over edges converge downwardly and meet at the apex or lower end of the twister, providing sockets which lie at an angle to each otherthat is to say, sockets the mouths of which face away from each other in opposite or different directions.

When the'box is closed, the wire ends are crossed and bent together, as shown in Fig. 9. Then the twisters areslipped onto the end portions of the wires, and each twister is thenturned. so as to twist together the wire ends, as shown in Fig. 4. As the wire ends converge, the twisters cannot fall off, and, in fact, cannot be dislodged until they are forcibly pulled off to open the box. As the said sockets or holes for the wires are obstructed or closed at their outer ends, the ends of the wires cannot protrude therefrom. With the wire ends thus covered, they cannot injure the hands of freight handlers. While they are not liable to come off, each'twister, is nevertheless removable in the sense that itcan be removed or slipped off when the box is to be opened.

It will be seen that the twisters A are adapted to increase the tension of. the binding wires of the box, by using said twisters like thumb pieces for rotating and twisting together the ends of the binding wires. In this way each twister is'ap lied to the free end portions of the wire, an the wire is then given a double spiral twist between the twister'and the main portions of the wire.

a It will be seen that the spiral twist of each binding wire is disposed between the twister A and the body or encircling portion of the wire. In other words, the twist does not constitute a part of the means for encircling the box, but to the contrary projects laterally therefrom. In this way the twister is not subject to the tension which is given the wire to cause it to embrace the box. For this reason the twister itself does not constitute any portion of the medium by which the box is encircled or embraced. It will be seen that the twisting together of the ends of the wire serves to grip the combined twister and guard, as the wires are bent sharply and pull at an angle to the sockets, when the twist becomes tight, as shown in Fig. 4. The untwisting, by rotating the twister and guard in the opposite direction, then serves to unilock the twister and guard, as the wires their inner ends and closed at their convergent or outer ends, for the purpose set forth.

2.]The combination of a box bound with a wire the adjoining free ends of which are twisted together, as and for the purpose set forth, and a twister and guard consisting of a metal plate having tubular sockets open at their inner ends and closed at their outer ends, these sockets receiving and inclosing the sharp ends of the wire beyond the twist and lying at an angle to eachother.

' 3. A box bound with a wire the adjoining. free ends of which are twisted together, provided with a twister and ard consisting of a metal plate having tubu ar sockets open at their inner ends and closed at their outer ends, these sockets receiving and inclosing the sharp ends of the wire beyond the twist and converging toward them outer .ends,

substantially as 'disclosed.

4. A box bound with a wire the free end portions of which are twisted together, provided with a combined guard and twister consistin of an a proximately triangular pi'ece ofs heet metal having each of two of its edges curled into a tube open at its inner end,

these tubes converging toward their outer ends and inclosing the entire outer end portions of the wire beyond the twist, as set forth. v I

Signed by me at St. Joseph, Berriencounty, Mich. this 26th day .of April, 1906,

' JULI sJ; MILLER.

Witnesses: I

T. S, CLARKE,

GEO. F. KELBLEJ 

